 Investigators are focusing on almost 200 phone calls made from Pakistan to Mohammad Siddique Khan in a bid to uncover his links to Qaeda, said officials on Thursday. One of the bombers may have also travelled to Waziristan, they added. British Home Secretary John Reid said Khan and Shahzad Tanweer are "likely to have met Qaeda figures" during their visit to Pakistan.
| Why else make the trip? To visit the old family homestead? To marry Cousin Lulu? |
Later, Brigadier Javed Cheema, head of the national crisis management cell, said, "We have seen the British report and Khan and Tanweer, were from Pakistani parentage but second generation British-born, bred and educated in England." There is no denying the fact that these terrorists visited Pakistan but their association with militant organisations here has not been established, he added.
| I think, since they did explode, that I'd start from the premise that they did, and try to put together an itinerary to either prove or disprove it. If they came back to marry Cousin Lulu and their little Islamic hearts were broken, causing them to go back to Britain and explode, so be it. If they spent the time chatting with bearded holy men in Muzzafargahr, then so be it. My guess leans much more toward the bearded holy men, probably affiliated with Hafiz Saeed. |
| The Brits allowed Tanweer's remains to go home to Pakistan for burial. I hope they took notes on who attended. |
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